Intellectual fashion: Think like your contemporaries: this is the secret to prosperity and to stupidity.
What is it?
What is a cliché? What does a hackneyed idea mean? It means those ideas that everybody says or thinks. Who said that? Nobody, everybody... The people. Some people live without having thought of anything by themselves
Example:
H. Arendt/Eichmann
What is it?
Judging someone or something before getting a piece of good knowledge. from prae ‘in advance’ + judicium ‘judgement’.
Problems
Why don't we listen
to reason?
Avoiding preconceptions
Is it possible?
Intelligence without prejudices means intelligence that does not see its own. We believe in many things that we don't believe we believe.
Is it good?
Examples
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them (Rousseau)
aSummary
We have to respect the truth and reality (what something is)We have to know that what reality also depends on our approach to itCritical thinking includes trust and distrust."All true knowledge is made against scepticism and through it."
